60 Mantis Stalks the Cicada (2/2)

”It's useless, poison only makes it stronger.”

Chilong took out his axe and stared at where Tianfei came from.

”Runt...I'll show you how it's done.”

Chilong took his time as he slowly walked forwards with caution. This was not because of he civet. No, he could easily deal with the civet. He needed to be careful of that thing he felt he was being watched by. As he approached the civet, he stroked the blade of the axe clearing it of any grit that was still stuck on the edge.

”Hmm?”

The civet turned around growling ravenously at the approaching figure. It dashed forwards moving sideways attempting to confuse the enemy and disorient him. Chilong lifted up his feet and kicked the ground shooting particles of mud into the eye of the beast. He stepped forwards waiting for the civet to reach him. He lifted up his axe and dropped it down on the head of the civet. Yellow mucus sprayed through the air splashing of nearby trees.

*Sss*

”Xin Fan. This beast is completely inedible.”

Xin Fan watched as the mucus dissolved through the wood boring holes into the trees. The swelling on the civet's lips seemed to be external glands that produced a sort of corrosive poison that flowed throughout it's body. In a nutshell, if one part has poison, everything has poison. Tianfei took out a vial from his inventory and collected some of the poison.

”See? It's this easy.”

Chilong cleaned off the mucus that was still stuck on the blade of his axe with the grass on the ground. He quickly washed it down with a drizzle of water before wiping it away with a rag.

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[ Conviction ]

Score: 815

Rank:4

Teams Remaining:23

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”Hmm? A team dropped out. When was the last time that happened?”

Most teams still surviving at this stage have consisted of strong people. It was normal to see a drop in teams remaining a few weeks back but in the recent weeks, not a single have dropped out. Xin Fan instinctively felt a sense of foreboding at the sight of the number drop. Chilong tightened his grip on the axe as he looked at the display in front of Xin Fan.

”I wonder if they've encountered a grade 2 beast yet?”

”Who knows, that may just be what's watching us.”

”You're still going on about that? It's been weeks since you've started and look now, nothing is going on.”

”Calm down Tianfei. I think Chilong has his reasons.”

*Whoosh*

A gust of wind rushed past scraping the corpse off the ground. The civet was shredded to pieces, spraying it's mucus all over their skin.

*Szz*

”Ah!”

”Quick wash it off with water!”

A ball of water exploded from Tianfei's hands spraying over their already burning skin to remove the mucus. Although her reactions were quick, dark red marks have already formed all over their bodies. A soaring creature with green eyes sneered as it flapped it's wings above.